Stovepipe-fastener.



- No. 659,2". Patented Oct. 9, I900.

J. W. COMES. STOVEPIPE FASTENER.

(Appl icntion filed Jim. 19, 1900.)

(No Model.)

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.-

JOHN WILLIAM COMES, OF PRINCETON, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JAMES A. THOMPSON, OF SAME PLACE.

STOVEPlPE-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 659,211, dated October 9, 1900.

' Application filed January 19, 1900. E 21 4- (N m m To a whom it may concern: main bar and between the flanges thereof is a Be it known that 1, JOHN WILLIAM OOMBS, supplemental bar 5, also formed of flat strap a citizen of the United States, residing at metal and having itsinner end provided with Princeton, in the county of Mercer and State an upstanding and outwardly-disposed clamp- 55 5 of Missouri, have invented a new and useful shoulder 6. Located opposite this shoulder Stovepipe-Fastener, of which the following is and extending inwardly upon the inner side a specification. of the supplemental baris a hook 7. A sub- This invention relates to stovepipe-fastenstantially L-shaped wall-clamp 8 is slidably ers, and has forits object to provide improved mounted upon the outer side of the supple- 60 10 means for securingastovepipe-section within mental bar and between the flanges of the the flue-opening of a chimney. It is furthermain bar and is provided with a longitudinal more designed to provide an adjustable deslot 9, formed in the body of the clamp, which vice of this character which may be accomis in engagement with the supplemental bar. modated to chimney-walls of different thick- From the foregoing description it will be ap- 65 nesses and also to pipe-sections of different parent that the several parts of the device lengths, and, finally, to prevent the innerend are slidable longitudinally upon each other, of the stovepipe from being accidentally and in order to fix the parts at any point of forced into the chimney-flue and also to pre adjustment thereis provided a headed screwvent outward displacement of the pipe-secthreaded fastening 10, carried by the supple- 7o tion. mental bar and projecting in opposite direc- To these ends the present invention contions through the slots of the main bar and sists in the combination and arrangement of the wall-clamp, the head of the fastening beparts, as will be hereinafter more fully deing located against the inner side of the main scribed,sl1o-wnin the accompanying drawings, bar. The outer end of the fastening pro- 25 and particularly pointed out in the appended jects outwardly through the slot in the wallclaim, it being understood thatch-anges in the clamp, so as to receive a suitable thumb-nut form, proportion, size, and minor details may 11, whereby the parts may be held at any adbe made withinthe scope of the appended justment, as will be understood. claim without departing from the spirit or In the application of the device the inner o sacrificing any of the advantages of the inend thereof is thrust through the flue-openvention. ing 12 of a chimney l3 and the clamp-shoul- In the drawings, Figure l is a longitudinal der 6 engaged against the inner side of the sectional view showing the present invention front wall thereof. Afterward the outer supportingastovepipe-section in aflue-openwall-clamp 8 is adjusted to engage against 5 ing of a chimney. Fig. 2 is a detail perspecthe outer Wall of the chimney, so as to suptive view of the improved fastening device. port the fastener upon the latter. Then the Corresponding parts in both figures of the stovepipe-section 14 is placed in the fluedrawings are designated by like characters of opening and its inner edge or end engaged reference. with the inner hook 7, as clearly shown in 40 Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 Fig. l of the drawings, and finally the outer designates the main bar of the device, which hook 2 is engaged with the outer end of the is formed of flat strap metal and is provided stovepipe. Thus it will be seen that the fasat its outer end with an inwardly-disposed tener is secured to the wall of the chimney hook 2, formed by bending the end of the bar and the pipe-section is secured to the device, 5

5 inwardly upon the inner or under side of the the inner hook 7 preventing the inner end of bar. From the opposite or inner end of the bar the pipe from being accidentally pushed into extend opposite longitudinal flanges 3, which the chimney-flue and the outer book 2 preterminate short of the outer hooked end of the venting outward displacement of the stovebar, and the latter is provided with a longitupipe. It will also be apparent that the sev- I00 50 dinal slot 4, located between the flanges. eral parts are independently adjustable, so

Mounted to slide upon the outer side of the that the clamp members may be accommodated to chimney-Walls of different thicknesses, and also the supplemental bar may be adjusted longitudinally upon the main bar, so that the device may be fitted to stovepipe-sections of different lengths. To provide for a greater range of adjustment, the supplemental bar may be provided with one or more additional openings 15 for the reception of the fastening 10, as will be understood. Moreover, the device is located exteriorly of the stovepipe, and therefore does not interfere with the draft therethrough and does not require any change in the pipe or the formation of perforations therein.

What I claim is In a stovepipe-faslener, a main bar, having its outer end bent or folded into a hook, opposite longitudinal flanges upon the opposite side of the bar from the hook, and also a longitudinal slot located between the flanges, a supplemental bar slidable longitudinally upon the main bar and between the flanges thereof, and also projecting longitudinally at the inner end of the main bar, an outwardly-extending clamp-shoulder provided at the outer projecting end of the supplemental bar, and

an inwardly-directed hook located upon the inner side of the outer end of said bar, the latter also having a plurality of perforations, a substantially L-shaped Wall-clamp slidable upon the outer side of the supplemental bar and between the flanges of the main bar, cooperating with the outwardly-directed clampshoulder, and also provided with a longitudinal slot, a headed screw-threaded fastening, carried by the supplemental bar and projecting through one of the perforations thereof, the head of the fastening being, located upon the outer side of the main bar and the adjacent shank portion being, slidahle in the slot of the main bar, and a nut provided upon the outer projecting, end of the fastening and to bind against the outer side of the L-shaped clamp.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto a-flixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN WILLIAM COMES.

Witnesses:

GRANT DUBLE, G. W. MILLER. 

